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  • I know some people who supported the war. They have become very quiet on that subject now.
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    • I supported it, and I am not quiet about it, but I maintained for months leading up to the war that whether or not Hussein had weapons was not the point. And Blix's quote shows he still doesn't get that. The impatience the American government had was not for finding weapons or not, it was for Iraqi cooperation, which was never the full (let alone immediate) cooperation required by UN resolutions.
      I don't know if there are weapons in Iraq, or were, and I only care for reasons OTHER than whether war was actu

      • For the record, I absolutely do not buy your argument, but at least it's a darned sight more intellectually honest than most pro-war arguments that I hear.

        • Heh. Well, I don't see what's to buy. Resolution 1441 listed as a material breach only one thing: not cooperating (and we know, indisputably, that Iraq did not fully cooperate, as it flatly refused to allow inspectors to interview their people under UN terms, as required by 1441).

          Resolution 687 (from 1991, the cease-fire agreement) said that it was Iraq's responsibility to prove that it had no weapons. It can only do that by fully cooperating, because any lack of cooperating means they could be hiding s
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